meat warning

kimosh


Joined: 09/08/2008
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
21/09/2008 22:35

hi all ..... has anyone heard about the meat problem ... apparently hospitals on the island have been full of patients suffering with sickness ..upset tums ..and pardone the expression the trots ..... apparently due to the high electric bills butchers and shop owners are turning there freezers off at night to save money ......

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
21/09/2008 22:38

That's put me off buying meat big time! What about restaurants?

kimosh


Joined: 09/08/2008
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
21/09/2008 22:40

thats a thought ..... i havent read anything about this but apparently it was in the turkish papers ..... still i guess its only us english who eat the meat

bazilbrush


Joined: 29/03/2008
Posts: 404

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 00:20

Went to a market yesterday and bought some fresh milk. When I arrived home thought I would have a nice cuppa only to find the seal was already broken and the milk was off. The date was ok but maybe they had put the old milk in the bottle, worrying times here at the moment.

Littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 08:11

flippion heck very dangerous stuff.

dsgranny


Joined: 22/07/2008
Posts: 11

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 14:08

Was it Supreme on thursday? I bought a bottle of milk, got it home and it was off, top not been tampered with?

Ralph96



Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 531

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 14:13

How long can you leave a chicken in the freezer.

ROBnJO


Joined: 30/06/2008
Posts: 1289

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 14:17

Ralph96





Is the chicken alive or dead?

mountbatten


Joined: 12/04/2008
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 14:36

I am no expert on freezers,but i would have thought that turning the freezer on & off would be a false economy.

ROBnjo,

Alive i would have thought if they have turned the electric off,and feeding on the sweet corn and the maggots from the rooten meat.

Enjoy your lunch.

mountbatten


Joined: 12/04/2008
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 17:05

I meant rotten

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 17:09

We laugh but at our peril where food hygiene standards are being compromised. I've been watching 'Rogue Restaurants' on BBC1 re restaurant kitchens. Not good.

sixpence


Joined: 14/07/2008
Posts: 25

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 17:21

Hi Ralph96!



I've been told about 3 months in the freezer!

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 17:53

i had food poisoning about a month ago. pharmacist said that he had seen a lot of people with the same symptoms. two courses of antibiotics later i'm just about alive.

now i shop in the south loaded with cool boxes. have a read up on the syptoms and after effects, it can kill. i usually eat at home now!

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 18:14

ralph96..providing you dont switch off the freezer it will last forever. If the power goes off try not to open the freezer door for any length of time.Frozen food is at a temp. of -25degrees so itwould take at least a few hours to get down to the point where you either use it or throw it ,and that would apply to all your food in the freezer. There is food in some of europes biggest cold stores been in there for years, just in case of emergencies.....

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 20:27

Although chicken will last indefinitely in deep freeze, its flavour will deteriorate and the chicken texture will suffer if kept much beyond 3 months...



Why would you do this anyway?



Surely storing food long-term is a waste of electricity for people who live within easy reach of fresh supplies...



OK we all get the odd bit of mislaid food in our freezers and think "I wonder if this is still OK to eat?" but you should not plan to do it on purpose...



Generally it will be perfectly safe as long as it's not been defrosted more than once...



As a general rule only keep prepared meals with garlic in them for one month as the garlic tends to take on a metallic taste if stored for longer periods...

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
22/09/2008 20:41

Have to agree with fire starter re eating at home.

kimosh


Joined: 09/08/2008
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
23/09/2008 15:23

if a freezer is turnerd off for 12 hours the food or meat would no longer be safe to eat ice cream is a very high risk ..... i worked with food for many years in uk god if i had done this i would have been closed down ..... unless u was eating the food that day forget it